Carlos Alcaraz Garfia publicly congratulated Novak Djokovic on his victory at the Australian Open and on his new ATP number 1, a privileged position that the Serb took away from him after 20 weeks, and the young tennis player from Murcia wished to see him ” soon in the search”.
So said the 19-year-old from El Palmar, who did not take part in Melbourne due to injury, on social media.
“Congratulations Novak Djokovic for the Australian Open and world number 1! Well deserved! Hope to see you soon on the court!”, He wrote on Twitter and Facebook.
Djokovic, who appears this Monday in the ATP ranking with 7,070 points against the 6,730 of Alcaraz, who has a disadvantage of 340, and the 6,195 of the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, third in the ranking.
Next is the Norwegian Casper Ruud, with 5,765; Russian Andrey Rublev, with 4,200; the Mallorcan Rafa Nadal, with 3,815; the Canadian Félix Auger-Aliassime, with 3,715; American Taylor Fritz, with 3,410; Denmark’s Holger Rune, with 3,046; and Pole Hubert Hurkacz, who closes the top 10 with 2,995 points.
Undoubtedly, physical problems played a trick on Alcaraz, who suffered two injuries – first a tear in the oblique musculature of the left abdominal wall and then pain in the semimembranosus muscle of the right leg – which barred him from competing from 4 November. , 2022.
Indeed, after reaching number 1 in the ATP with his victory at the US Open on September 11, he has played barely ten competitive matches, including two in the Davis Cup, which does not award points.
Moreover, he has participated in two exhibition matches in Abu Dhabi which also do not count for the world tennis rankings.
Since his victory over Ruud in New York, the pupil of Juan Carlos Ferrero has appeared in the Davis Cup qualifiers against Korea – he beat Soon Woo Kwon 6-4, 7-6 (1) – and Canada – lost against Auger -Aliassime 7-6 (3), 4-6 and 2-6)- and later went to the ATP 500 in Astana, Kazakhstan, where he lost in the first exchange against Belgian David Goffin 5- 7 and 3-6 to then play the ATP 500 in Basel, Switzerland, where he beat Briton Jack Draper (3-6, 6-2 and 7-5), Dutchman Botic van de Zanschulp (6-4 and 6-2), the Spaniard Pablo Carreño (6-3 and 6-4) to fall again in the semi-final against Auger-Aliassime (3-6 and 2-6).
From there, he left for France to participate in the Paris-Bercy Masters 1000, where he beat the Japanese Yoshihito Nishoioka (6-4 and 6-4), the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov (6-1 and 6-3) before losing to Rune in a match in which he left due to injury down 3-6, 6-6.
It was the last competitive match for Alcaraz, whose ATP record since winning at Flushing Meadows is five wins and three losses, and who plans to reappear at the ATP 250 in Buenos Aires, to be held from 13-19 February in the Argentine capital. .
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